This Day In History ~ The Bloggety-Bloggety Blog Version!

May 19, 1563 - Anne Boleyn was executed on charges of adultery and witchcraft (among others) that were all fabricated and false from beginning to end.

Most of the gusto to go through with this heinous way of dispensing with the wife came from King Henry VIII's mistress and next wife, the ambitious Jane Seymour (not to be confused with the actress now!)

As author Agnes Strickland succinctly surmised so very well, "Anne Boleyn's last agonised hours" and Henry VIII's swift remarriage to Jane Seymour "is repulsive enough, but it becomes tenfold more abhorrent when the woman who caused the whole tragedy is loaded with panegyric."

Jane Seymour would get pregnant very soon after replacing Anne Boleyn as Queen - and die from puerperal fever a mere twelve days after giving birth to a precious male heir to the throne. Alas, he was to have a very short-lived reign as king, Edward VI...
One of Jane's two equally overtly-ambitious brothers would marry Henry VIII's widow years later, Catherine Parr...
May the word of the day be panegyric now! *lol*